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This catalog features rare, antique and decorative books as well as select additions of art and ephemera. Highlighted is a large and impressive quantity of desirable antique books dating back to the 15th century. We will also sell a sizable collection of Limited Editions Club books, including several rare examples. Several choice art pieces will be offered, led by an original copper plate by Charles Burchfield. The ephemera lots are lead by a selection of three dozen original Mckenney and Hall original color lithographs of notable Native American chiefs and warriors, produced during the 1830's and 1840's.

Antique and rare books in this catalog feature numerous titles. Among the earliest examples is a piece of incunabulum, dating from circa 1491 and entitled "Quaestiones Super Quattuor Libros Sententiarum," credited to Petrus Lombardus. Other early specimens include Luis De Granada's "Pars Aestivalis Postillae de Tempore," printed in 1588, Eusebius' 1525 printing of "Hystoria Ecclesiastica Uenundatur Parisius a Francisco Regnault in Vico Santi Jabobi Sub Signo Diui Claudi," and Giovanni Battista Giraldi's "Epitia Tragedia," printed in 1583. Numerous other 16th century titles are also included in the catalog, along with many specimens from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Also featured is the 1833 first American edition of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein."

Several pleasing estate collections will be offered. A sizable group of Limited Editions Club titles are led by John Hersey & Robert Penn Warren's "Hiroshima," printed in 1983, Arthur Rimbaud's 1986 edition of "A Season in Hell," and Arthur Szyk's "Ink & Blood: A Book of Drawings," pressed in 1946. Additional fine offerings come from collections themed around early Americana, special/limited fine press books, history, books-on-books, vintage and antique children's and many other subjects.

Found throughout this catalog are worthy lots of art and ephemera. The art lots are highlighted by an original copper engraving plate, commissioned of Charles E. Burchfield in 1960. Ephemera and collectibles lots include a variety of types of items such as an original 1876 Centennial Exhibition cotton scarf, an antique cast iron book press, sheet music, postcards, Victorian chromolithographs, advertising, travel-related, original antique correspondence, antique photographs & stereoviews, postage, and other genres.

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Title: The Substance of the Official Medical Reports upon the Epidemic, Called Cholera, Which Prevailed among the Poor at Dantzick, between the End of May and the First Part of September, 1831, as Transmitted to Their Lordships; Being an Analysis of the Said Epidemic Disease in That City - Founded upon Actual Observation and Accurate Inquiry: With Important and Well-Authenticated Facts Relative to the Same Disease, as It Prevailed among the Poor in Other Parts of the North of EuropeAuthor: John HamettPublisher: S. HighleyCity: LondonYear: 1832Printing Information: First EditionBinding Style: HardcoverPagination: xxiii/189 pagesWidth: 6" Height: 9.25"Book Details: Condition / Notes: This is a rare unopened copy of this work, complete with well-preserved fold-out map of the city of Danzig.Antique volume has been neatly rebacked with matching heavy paper, new label. Boards show mild wear. Binding is firm, with inner joints professionally strengthened. Traces of bookplate removal appear on front pastedown. Offsetting is visible in upper inside corner of frontispiece map and title page. Interior is otherwise clean and without markings. Fold-out map is entitled "Plan of Dantzick in Illustration of Dr. Hamett's Analysis of the Epidemic of Cholera...in 1831"For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Title: Quaestiones super quattuor libros sententiarumAuthor: Petrus Lombardus - Peter Lombard, Peter the Lombard or Petrus Lombardus, was a scholastic theologian and bishop and author of "Four Books of Sentences," which became the standard textbook of theology, for which he earned the accolade Magister Sententiarum.Peter Lombard wrote commentaries on the Psalms and the Pauline epistles; however, his most famous work by far was "Libri Quatuor Sententiarum," or the "Four Books of Sentences," which became the standard textbook of theology at the medieval universities. From the 1220s until the 16th century, no work of Christian literature, except for the Bible itself, was commented upon more frequently. All the major medieval thinkers, from Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas to William of Ockham and Gabriel Biel, were influenced by it. Even the young Martin Luther still wrote glosses on the Sentences, and John Calvin quoted from it over 100 times in his Institutes.Though the "Four Books of Sentences" formed the framework upon which four centuries of scholastic interpretation of Christian dogma was based, rather than a dialectical work itself, the "Four Books of Sentences" is a compilation of biblical texts, together with relevant passages from the Church Fathers and many medieval thinkers, on virtually the entire field of Christian theology as it was understood at the time. Peter Lombard's magnum opus stands squarely within the pre-scholastic exegesis of biblical passages, in the tradition of Anselm of Laon, who taught through quotations from authorities. It stands out as the first major effort to bring together commentaries on the full range of theological issues, arrange the material in a systematic order, and attempt to reconcile them where they appeared to defend different viewpoints. The Sentences starts with the Trinity in Book I, moves on to creation in Book II, treats Christ, the saviour of the fallen creation, in Book III, and deals with the sacraments, which mediate Christ's grace, in Book IV.Publisher: A. KorbergerCity: NurembergYear: circa 1491Binding Style: HardcoverNumber of Volumes: 1 Complete: NoPagination: Unpaginated with 212 leavesWidth: 9" Height: 12.25"Book Details: Condition / Notes: This is the third volume of a four-volume edition. Antique volume is bound in modern cloth-backed paper boards with ink title on spine. Book shows light soiling and edgewear, with corners somewhat rubbed. Hinges are cracked. "216" in old ink on upper corner of final leaf, A2-8 (A1 blank or lacking), B-Ll6, Mm8, Nn4. Apparently untrimmed, stamp of Museo Cavaleri in lower margin of A2, decorative red and blue opening initials, some initials in alternating red and blue throughout, partially printed in double columns and sometimes with side commentary, scattered faint toning and foxing, ink marginalia on Q4, R3, Ll5, and Mm2, some heavier browning to leaves Hh1 and 6 and Ll5-6, generally clean and bright; auction slip tipped in at front, two pictorial bookplates, one with the motto "felix est qui me habet" and the other with the name "Harold Marshall, Harlesden." A good incunable, printed in Gothic lettering.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $6.50

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Title: Order and Chaos Chez Hans ReichelAuthor: Henry Miller - Henry Valentine Miller was an American writer and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of "novel" that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. His most characteristic works of this kind are "Tropic of Cancer" (1934), "Black Spring" (1936), and "Tropic of Capricorn" (1939). He also wrote travel memoirs and essays of literary criticism and analysis.Publisher: Loujon PressCity: TucsonYear: 1966Printing Information: First PrintingBinding Style: HardcoverPagination: 87 pagesWidth: 9" Height: 10.25"Book Details: "This little book is, if memory serves me right, only one of several which Miller completed around this time (1937-38) and gave to his friends as personal gifts. Inevitably Hans Reichel was one of the first to receive such a tribute for he was among the founder-members of the little group that grew up around Miller, Anais Nin, and Alfred Perles in the Villa Seurat of Hallowed Memory." (Opening lines of introduction by Lawrence Durrell).Condition / Notes: This is a scarce limited first edition of this work, with introduction by Lawrence Durrell and frontispiece by Karl Shapiro. This is one of 1399 copies of the "Cork Edition."This hand-crafted volume in cork binding has colored pages & deckle edges and is preserved in original dust jacket and publisher-issued decorated cardboard slipcase, with paper title label to spine. Illustrated with original photo of Miller at front of book, photo of Miller of jacket, painting by Reichel entitled "L'homme dans la lune" on jacket cover, as well as Reichel self-portrait and photo, and other illustrations. Book and jacket are in excellent condition, slipcase displays light shelfwear.Texts in English and French.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Title: A General History of QuadrupedsAuthor: Thomas Bewick - Thomas Bewick was an English engraver and natural history author. By adopting metal-engraving tools to cut hard boxwood across the grain, he revolutionized the printing of illustrations using wood, and restored its popularity. As an engraver he took on all kinds of work such as engraving cutlery and making the wood blocks for advertisements, as well as illustrating children's books. Gradually he turned to illustrating, writing and publishing his own books, gaining an adult audience for the fine illustrations in "A History of Quadrupeds."Bewick's career began when he was apprenticed to engraver Ralph Beilby in Newcastle upon Tyne. He became a partner in the businesss and eventually took it over. Apprentices whom Bewick trained include John Anderson, Luke Clennell, and William Harvey, who in their turn became well known as painters and engravers.Bewick is best known for his "A History of British Birds," which is admired today mainly for its wood engravings, especially the small, sharply observed, and often humorous vignettes known as tail-pieces. He notably illustrated editions of "Aesop's Fables" throughout his life. (Courtesy of Wikipedia)Publisher: S. Hodgson, R. Beilby, & T. BewickCity: Newcastle upon TyneYear: 1790Printing Information: First EditionBinding Style: HardcoverPagination: viii/456 pagesWidth: 5.75" Height: 8.5"Book Details: Condition / Notes: Antique volume is bound in contemporary gilt-stamped brown leather with professionally repaired hinges and a small area of rebacking at top of spine, with spine bands and red leather spine label. Book has slight wear at corners. Binding is firm. Edges are stained yellow. Volume has marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate with motto of Henry Ralph Lambton, pictorial bookplate of Robert H. Brannan. Interior has a few scattered spots of light staining, neatly repaired tear on page 15 with no loss of text. Pages are generally clean, bright and without markings. Illustrated with vignette wood engravings of animals throughout.Brannan was an officer of the Newberry Library and the treasurer of the Newberry Poetry Magazine from 1959-1971.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Title: Koamalu: A Story of Pioneers on Kauai and of What They Built in That Island GardenAuthor: Ethel M. DamonPublisher: Privately PrintedCity: HonoluluYear: 1931Binding Style: Number of Volumes: 2 Complete: YesWidth: 6.5" Height: 9.25"Book Details: A history of early settlers on Kauai, Hawaii, and the Rice-Isenberg family.Condition / Notes: Antique set is bound in olive green quarter cloth over green paper-covered boards, with lettering and pictorial design to spines. Books show light shelfwear. Bindings are firm. Gift inscription, dated 1944, appears on front flyleaves. Previous owner's small paper sticker appears at top edge of front flyleaf of first volume. Interiors are clean and without markings. This work is illustrated with frontispieces, full-page and in-text photos and drawings.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $6.50

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Title: HiroshimaAuthor: John Hersey - John Richard Hersey was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling devices of the novel are fused with non-fiction reportage., Robert Penn Warren - Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel "All the King's Men" (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetryPublisher: The Limited Editions ClubCity: New YorkYear: 1983Printing Information: Signed EditionBinding Style: HardcoverPagination: UnpaginatedWidth: 10" Height: 12.75"Book Details: Condition / Notes: This is a scarce limited edition of this work by John Hersey, with a new poem by Robert Penn Warren and silk-screens by Jacob Lawrence. This edition is pencil signed by both authors and illustrator on the colophon page. This is number 1459 of 1500.This volume is bound in bound in full black aniline black, with blind-stamped title to front cover. Volume is in excellent condition. This book contains a new poem by Robert Penn Warren, "New Dawn: Hiroshima," which he dedicated to John Hersey and Jacob Lawrence, and that here serves as preface Hersey's account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Illustrated with eight silk screen plates by Jacob Lawrence Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 - June 9, 2000) was an American painter; he was married to fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem. Lawrence is among the best-known 20th-century African-American painters, a distinction shared with Romare Bearden. Lawrence was only in his twenties when his "Migration Series" made him nationally famous. A part of this series was featured in a 1941 issue of Fortune magazine. The series depicted the epic Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North. The collection has been split into two parts for public viewing.This edition was printed by Bruce Chandler and Daniel Keleher at the Wild Carrot Letterpress in Hadley, Massachusetts. The book was designed by Ben Schiff. The text was hand set in Foundry Optima Medium at the Golgonooza Letter Foundry, Ashuelot Village, New Hampshire. The eight original silkscreens were printed in eleven colors at The Studio Heinrici Ltd., New York City. The book was bound at Robert Burlen & Son. Full-cloth black slipcase with stamped red lettering to spine displays light shelfwear. Case measures approximately 10.25" x 13.25". Club Newsletter specific to this volume is laid-in. For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $6.50

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Details: This lot includes the color lithograph from the McKenney & Hall series of Native American portraits shown in the corresponding image(s). This is an original hand-colored portrait of Shar-I-Tar-Ish, a Pawnee chief, taken from the landmark publication "Indian Tribes of North America" (J. T. Bowen, 1841). This well-preserved print measures approximately 14.25" x 19.75" and is complete with a two-page biographical text that shows water staining on edges. ""McKenney & Hall: History of the Indian Tribes of North America" is a collection of 125 images of lithographic and chromolithographic plates. Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785-1859) served as Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1824 to 1830. In that capacity he commissioned and collected portraits of Native Americans for his Gallery in the War Department. McKenney's goal was to publish a record of vanishing peoples: portraits, biographical sketches and a history of North American Indians. He accomplished this in the first issue of the History of the Indian Tribes of North America, published in three volumes between 1838 and 1844. James Hall (1793-1868) provided the text." To inspect and acquire more detailed information about this lot, please attend our live preview before the auction. Condition / Notes: Tissue-guarded plate shows no tears, punctures or creasing and displays faint staining at margins. Lithograph is preserved in archival folder with printed label to front cover.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $6.50

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Title: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Author: Samuel Johnson - Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature": James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. Johnson was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, and attended Pembroke College, Oxford for just over a year, before his lack of funds forced him to leave. After working as a teacher he moved to London, where he began to write miscellaneous pieces for The Gentleman's Magazine. His early works include the biography The Life of Richard Savage, the poems "London" and "The Vanity of Human Wishes", and the play ""Irene." After nine years of work, Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" was published in 1755; it had a far-reaching effect on Modern English and has been described as "one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship." This work brought Johnson popularity and success. Until the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary 150 years later, Johnson's was viewed as the pre-eminent British dictionary. His later works included essays, an influential annotated edition of William Shakespeare's plays, and the widely read tale Rasselas. In 1763, he befriended James Boswell, with whom he later travelled to Scotland; Johnson described their travels in "A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland." Towards the end of his life, he produced the massive and influential "Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets," a collection of biographies and evaluations of 17th- and 18th-century poets. Johnson had a tall and robust figure, but his odd gestures and tics were confusing to some on their first encounter with him. Boswell's "Life," along with other biographies, documented Johnson's behaviour and mannerisms in such detail that they have informed the posthumous diagnosis of Tourette syndrome (TS), a condition not defined or diagnosed in the 18th century. After a series of illnesses he died on the evening of 13 December 1784, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. In the years following his death, Johnson began to be recognised as having had a lasting effect on literary criticism, and even as the only great critic of English literature.Publisher: G. Offor and six othersCity: Tower-Hill, LondonYear: 1818Binding Style: HardcoverNumber of Volumes: 10 Complete: YesWidth: 4.5" Height: 7.25"Book Details: Condition / Notes: Antique set is bound in old half leather with marbled boards and edges. Spines display stamped gilt lettering and baby. Books are moderately rubbed, with minor chipping at ends of spines and corners. Bindings are firm. Pages show occasional light foxing. Includes a portrait by Reynolds and lengthy index.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $10.50

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Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: A NovelAuthor: Ken Kesey - Ken Kesey was one of Oregon's most famous, critically acclaimed, and controversial authors. His rise to literary and cultural prominence was the product of his distinctive skills and experiences.Kesey was born on September 17, 1935, in La Junta, Colorado, and in 1946 he and his family moved to Springfield, Oregon. In both high school and at the University of Oregon, Kesey was a champion wrestler. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Oregon's School of Journalism in 1957, Kesey attended Stanford University's creative writing program under the tutelage of acclaimed historian, novelist, and short story writer Wallace Stegner. While at Stanford, Kesey participated in U.S. Army experiments involving lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and mescalin. These hallucinogenic experiences would change Kesey's outlook on life and inspire his writings.He published One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1962 and the quintessential Oregon novel Sometimes a Great Notion in 1964. Both novels explore what Kesey saw as the conflict between modern industrial society and individuality, a struggle between conformity and freedom. This struggle was also central to Kesey's personal life, where he turned to psychedelic drugs to find personal liberation.Considered a founding father of the 1960s counterculture, Kesey promoted drug use as a path to individual freedom. He founded a group known as the Merry Pranksters and in 1964 he and the Pranksters traveled the country in a day-glo colored school bus named "Further." This bus was sometimes piloted by Neal Cassady, a Beat icon made famous in Jack Kerouac's 1957 largely autobiographical novel On the Road. The Pranksters were notorious for their "acid tests" and became the inspiration for Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, published in 1968. The Pranksters also promoted the "Warlocks," a band later known as the Grateful Dead.In 1965, Kesey's drug use landed him in jail for six months. Upon his release, Kesey moved to a farm near Eugene to raise his family. He would publish a loosely organized memoir of his experiences in 1973's Kesey's Garage Sale. In 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest became an Oscar winning film and Kesey briefly worked as a professor of writing at the University of Oregon. He published his third novel, Sailor Song in 1992, and lived in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, until his death on November 10, 2001. (biographical information courtesy of www.ohs.org/the-oregon-history-project/biographies)Publisher: The Viking PressCity: New YorkYear: 1962Printing Information: First StateBinding Style: HardcoverPagination: 311 pagesWidth: 6" Height: 8.25"Book Details: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1962) is a novel written by Ken Kesey. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of the institutional processes and the human mind as well as a critique of Behaviorism and a celebration of humanistic principles. Published in 1962, the novel was adapted into a Broadway play by Dale Wasserman in 1963. Bo Goldman adapted the novel for the 1975 film directed by Miloš Forman, which won five Academy Awards.Time Magazine included the novel in its "100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005" list.Condition / Notes: This is a scarce first state of the first edition of this novel by Ken Kesey. "Published in 1962 by The Viking Press" is stated on copyright page with no indication of further printings. The following identification points are present: "that fool Red Cross woman" on page 9, lines 12-13; "Red Cross woman named Gwen-doe-lin, with the blond hair the patients are always arguing about..." at top of page 86. Dust Jacket has price of $4.95 on the upper corner of front flap and Jack Kerouac blurb at the bottom of front flap reads ""A great new American novelist."Volume is bound in green cloth with yellow lettering to spine. Book shows some barely perceptible evidence of damping to cloth. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and without markings.Intact illustrated dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon displays light wear to top and bottom of spine panel; small, light area of damping to top of spine panel; minuscule pinhole to front hinge; one-inch closed tear to base of front panel; and several tiny scuffs to front panel. Dust jacket is more attractive than the enumerated faults indicate and exhibits almost none of the spine fading common to this title. Rear cover bears photograph of the author. Housed in handsome custom green leather clamshell box with relief on covers designed to resemble patterns on dust wrapper and with gilt-lettered red leather spine label.Jacket is preserved in mylar.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Details: This antique book press or vise is as handsome as it is heavy. Made of solid cast-iron with hand-painted tole accents in red and gold, it is in easy working order. No manufacturer is indicated.To inspect and acquire more detailed information about this lot, please attend our live preview before the auction.Condition / Notes: This item is in generally good condition with some indicators of age and use.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. This lot will be available for pickup only.

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Title: Hobo's Code BookAuthor: Frank J. ThomasPublisher: The Tenfingers PressCity: Los AngelesYear: 1964Printing Information: Limited EditionBinding Style: HardcoverPagination: 25 unnumbered pagesWidth: 3.75" Height: 5.5"Book Details: "Riders of the Big Stew Route come & go with the times. This code book is dedicated to all cinder-griftes who have scrawled these high-sings on box-cars, brick-walls, curbstones & cans." Condition / Notes: This is a scarce limited edition of this work in accordion binding, with wood-grained paper boards. This is copy 55 of 55. Book shows minimal external wear. Binding is sound. Dedication page and first two pages display small marginal stains.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Title: L'art d'ecrire reduit a des demonstrations vraies et faciles, avec des explications claires, pour le dictionnaire des artesAuthor: Charles Paillasson - Charles Paillasson was a French man of letters, calligrapher and encyclopediste, named "expert ecrivain jure verificateur et ancien professeur de l'Académie royale d'écriture" in 1767 and "Premier secrétaire du Cabinet du roi" in 1780.Publisher: uncreditedCity: ParisYear: 1765Binding Style: Other - see descriptionPagination: 16 pages plus 25 platesWidth: 10.5" Height: 15.75"Book Details: Condition / Notes: Antique folio is bound in later chipped, repaired wrappers. Book has elaborate engraved title page, 16 pages of text, and 25 engraved plates of alphabets from all the known world numbered 1 to 25. A clean copy of this notable work by a master calligrapher. Includes Hebrew, Syrian, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Phoenician, Ethiopian, Egyptian, Etruscan, Anglo-Saxon, Russian, Serbian, Armenian, Georgian, Persian, Bengali, Siamese, Tibetan, Manchurian, Japanese, Chinese, &c. Paillasson contributed a section on calligraphy to Diderot's "Encyclopedia." Although similar in title, this is not his treatise on the methods of writing, but a separate and rarer workFor lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Details: "The Little Drummer" is a salesman's catalog from Winch Brothers Company of Boston, which claimed it was "The largest shoe jobbing house in the world." This 1910-1911 catalog includes detailed drawings of the latest high-button shoes for men, women, and children, as well as button hooks, replacement heels and other parts, mending equipment, and everything else related to shoes. Price lists are included.To inspect and acquire more detailed information about this lot, please attend our live preview before the auction.Condition / Notes: This catalog is generally in good, intact condition with some age/wear indications.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $6.50

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Book Details: This lot includes the group of booklets on American history by private presses shown in the corresponding image(s). The titles in this collection are limited editions of "Lincoln's Secretary Goes West: Two Reports by John G. Nicolay on Frontier Indian Troubles 1862" edited by Theodore C. Blegen (Sumac Press, 1965, 8vo 76 pages. Cloth. Copy 45 of 500 copies); "The Colonial Tobacconist" (The Tenfingers Press, 1970, number 45 of 100 copies, includes flyer offering account of the book's preparation and completion) by Frank J. Thomas; and "Lincoln as Seen by C. C. Brown" (The Crabgrass Press, 1963, in wrappers and envelope, one of 300) edited by Wayne C. Temple. To inspect and acquire more detailed information about this lot, please attend our live preview before the auction. Condition / Notes: Books are in excellent condition.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Book Details: This lot includes the group of Limited Edition Club volumes shown in the corresponding image(s). The titles in this collection are "The Conquest and Settlement of the Island of Boriquen or Puerto Rico" (1975) by Captain Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes, with drawings by Jack & Irene Delano, "The Book of the People: Popul Vuh. The National Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya" (1954) with illustrations by Everett Gee Jackson, W. H. Prescott's "History of the Conquest of Peru, 1524-1550" (1957), "The Chronicles of the Cid" (1958) with illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan, and Pedro Antonio de Alarcon's "The Three-Cornered Hat" (1959) illustrated by Roger Duvoisin. Each illustrator-signed volume is preserved in its slipcase. Also present in this group is a Random House printing of Cervantes' "Don Quixote de la Mancha" (1941), with engravings by Hans Alexander Mueller. To inspect and acquire more detailed information about this lot, please attend our live preview before the auction.Condition / Notes: As with all the books in our shelf lots, these are generally in good condition with some age/wear indications; older books are more likely to have advanced flaws.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $20.50

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Title: The Gallery of Illustrations for Shakespeare's Dramatic Works Originally Projected and Published by John Boydell. Reduced and Re-Engraved by the Heliotype Process with Selections from the TextAuthor: uncredited authorEditor: J. Parker NorrisPublisher: Gebbie & Barrie, PublishersCity: PhiladelphiaYear: 1874Binding Style: HardcoverPagination: UnpaginatedWidth: 11.5" Height: 14.25"Book Details: Condition / Notes: Reduced and re-engraved by the Heliotype process with selections from the original text. Approximately 14 x 11 inches in gilt-stamped full dark brown leather, hinges neatly repaired, and with raised bands on spine. All edges gilt. Corners lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers. Includes frontispiece and 99 plate illustrations, each plate with a sheet of descriptive letterpress and thick tissue guard. A fine copy.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $13.50

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Title: A Streetcar Named DesireAuthor: Tennesee Williams - Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs. His professional career lasted from the mid-1930s until his death in 1983, and saw the creation of many plays that are regarded as classics of the American stage. Williams adapted much of his best known work for the cinema.Publisher: The Limited Editions ClubCity: New YorkYear: 1982Printing Information: Signed EditionBinding Style: HardcoverPagination: UnpaginatedWidth: 8.25" Height: 13"Book Details: Condition / Notes: This is a scarce limited edition of this work by Tennessee Williams, with a foreword by Jessica Tandy and an introduction by the author, and signed by illustrator Al Hirschfeld on the colophon page. This is number 1459 of 2000.This volume is bound in pictorial linen with vine-and-flowers motif, Aniline leather spine has bright stamped gilt lettering. Volume is in excellent condition.."The composition of the text in Monotype New Times Roman has been performed by Mackenzie-Harris of San Francisco. Danie Keleher at the Wild Carrot Letterpress has printed the text and the engraved plates. The 100 pound Letterpress wove paper has been specially made for this edition by Mohawk Mills and is here used for the first time. The frontisiece, an original lithograh, has been printed by George J. Goodstadt of New York on Rives paper. The book has been bound by Robert Burlen of Hingham, Mass. in Checquered Lady, a hand screened fabric imported from Italy by Clarence House Ltd." -ColophonSlipcase with stamped gilt lettering to spine displays light shelfwear. Case measures approximately 8.25" x 13.25". Club Newsletter specific to this volume is laid-in. For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $6.50

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Title: Harmoniae Evangelicae libri IIII Graece et Latine, in quibus Euangelica historia ex quatuor Euangelistis ita in unum est contexta, ut nullius uerbu[m] ullum omissum, nihil alienum immixtum, nullius ordo turbatus, nihil non suo loco positum : omnia uerò literis & notis ita distincta sint, ut quid cuisq[ue] evangelistæ proprium, quid cum aliis, & cum quibus commune sit, primo statim aspectu deprehendere queas. Item Elenchus Harmoniae Annotationum liber unusAuthor: Andreas Osiander - Andreas Osiander was a German Lutheran theologian.Osiander published a corrected edition of the Vulgate Bible, with notes, in 1522 and a "Harmony of the Gospels" in 1537. In 1533, Brandenburg-Nuernbergische Kirchenordnung vom Jahre 1533 was published, with Osiander assisting in both the source material the final editing. This combined order of worship and catechism was the first work to include the Keys section of Luther's "Small Catechism," of which Osiander is a suspected author.In 1543, Osiander oversaw the publication of the book "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" ("On the revolution of the celestial spheres") by Copernicus. He added a preface suggesting that the model described in the book was not necessarily true, or even probable, but was useful for computational purposes. This was certainly not the opinion of Copernicus, who was probably unaware of the addition. As a result, many readers, unaware that Osiander was the author of the preface, believed that Copernicus himself had not believed that his hypothesis was actually true. Osiander also did not sign the preface added to Copernicus' book, therefore many readers at the time assumed that this is what Copernicus had actually thought himself.In 1550 Osiander published two controversial disputations, "De Lege et Evangelio" and "De Justficatione." In these, he set out his view that justification by faith was instilled in (rather than ascribed to) humanity by Christ's divinity, a view contrary to those of Martin Luther and John Calvin although he agreed with Lutheranism's fundamental opposition to Roman Catholicism and Calvinism. These beliefs were maintained after his death by Johann Funck (his son-in-law) but disappeared after 1566. (Courtesy of Wikipedia)Publisher: Ex Officina Frobeniana, per Hieronymum Frobenium et Nicholaum EpiscopumCity: BaselYear: 1561Binding Style: HardcoverPagination: [12] + [24] pp. + 145 folia + [1] blank leaf + [68] pp. annotationsWidth: 8.5" Height: 12.5"Book Details: The "Harmonic Gospels" are an attempt to create a single canonical text of the canonical gospels by present a unified text derived from them; Osiander, a German Lutheran theologian and mystic, also published a corrected edition of the Vulgate Bible and oversaw the publication of Copernicus's "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium." Adams O359. Condition / Notes: Antique volume is bound in contemporary flexible vellum showing significant wear, having become dried and somewhat darkened, lacking 2" at top of spine, displaying holes from lost ties, upper corner on front board partially folded back revealing board, some remains of pasted-down paper around upper spine, front board detached from paper block, block binding solid; along the spine are three strips of vellum with fragments of a musical text in later Caroline minuscule. Occasional light toning and foxing, some light liquid stains, scattered ink marginalia, a few small wormholes in margins not affecting text, overall clean and bright; folio 15 misprinted as 13, library stamp on title page from the Bibliothec. P. R. Stuttg., three small splotches of red ink on title page. Printed in Greek and Latin. Printed by Hieronymus Froben, eldest son of Johann Froben, who was a pioneering printer of Basel.Printers' names from colophon; printers' device on title page.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Title: A Plain and Succinct Narrative of the Late Riots and Disturbances in the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark. Containing, Particulars of the Burning of Newgate, the King's Bench, the Fleet, and New Bridewell Prisons. Also, the Houses of Lord Mansfield, Sir John Fielding, Messrs. Landale, Rainsforth, Cox, Hyde &c. Romish Chapels, Schools, &c. with an Account of the Commission of Lord George Gordon to the Tower, and Anecdotes of His Life. To Which Is Prefixed, an Abstract of the Act Lately Passed in Favour of the Roman Catholics. And an Account of the Bill, as Moved for in Parliament by Sir George Savile, with the Observations of Sir George and Mr. Dunning on the Papist Penal LawsAuthor: Publisher: Fielding and WalkerCity: LondonYear: 1780Printing Information: First EditionBinding Style: HardcoverPagination: 62 pagesWidth: 5.5" Height: 8.5"Book Details: Condition / Notes: Antique volume has been rebound in maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Book shows mild external wear, with minor fraying at ends of spine and outside corners. Binding is firm. Pencil annotations appear on title page. Annotation in ink can be seen in upper outside corner of final page of text. Lightly age-toned pages display sporadic light foxing.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Details: This lot includes the color lithograph from the McKenney & Hall series of Native American portraits shown in the corresponding image(s). This is an original hand-colored portrait of Peskelechaco, a Pawnee chief, taken from the landmark publication "Indian Tribes of North America" (J. T. Brown Lithographic Establishment, 1841). This well-preserved print measures approximately 14.25" x 19.75" and is complete with two pages of biographical text that show water staining to edges. ""McKenney & Hall: History of the Indian Tribes of North America" is a collection of 125 images of lithographic and chromolithographic plates. Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785-1859) served as Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1824 to 1830. In that capacity he commissioned and collected portraits of Native Americans for his Gallery in the War Department. McKenney's goal was to publish a record of vanishing peoples: portraits, biographical sketches and a history of North American Indians. He accomplished this in the first issue of the History of the Indian Tribes of North America, published in three volumes between 1838 and 1844. James Hall (1793-1868) provided the text." To inspect and acquire more detailed information about this lot, please attend our live preview before the auction. Condition / Notes: Tissue-guarded plate shows no tears, punctures or creasing and displays faint staining at edges. Lithograph is preserved in archival folder with printed label to front cover.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $6.50

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Title: Sacred FixAuthor: Sinclair Beiles - Sinclair Beiles was a South African beat poet and editor for Maurice Girodias at the Olympia Press in Paris. He developed along with William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin the cut-up technique of writing poetry and literature.Beiles was involved with American beat poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Brion Gysin, and Burroughs at the legendary Beat Hotel in Paris. The photographer Harold Chapman recorded this period in his book "The Beat Hotel" (Gris Banal, 1984). He co-authored "Minutes to Go with Burroughs, Gysin and Corso" (Two Cities Editions, 1960). Beiles helped edit Burroughs' "Naked Lunch."Publisher: Cold Turkey PressCity: RotterdamYear: 1975Printing Information: Limited EditionBinding Style: Perfect BindingPagination: UnpaginatedWidth: 8.5" Height: 11.75"Book Details: Condition / Notes: This is a scarce limited first edition. This is copy number 210 of 250.Volume is bound in printed cream wrappers with brown tape shelfback. Book shows mild external wear, with white markings to spine and lightly bumped lower outside corner. Binding is tight. Interior is clean and bright.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Details: This lot includes the color lithograph from the McKenney & Hall series of Native American portraits shown in the corresponding image(s). This is an original hand-colored portrait of Timpoochee Barnard, an Uchee warrior, taken from the landmark publication "Indian Tribes of North America" (F. W. Greenough, 1838). This well-preserved print measures approximately 14.25" x 19.75" and is complete with a four-page biographical text that displays water markings and soiling at edges.""McKenney & Hall: History of the Indian Tribes of North America" is a collection of 125 images of lithographic and chromolithographic plates. Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785-1859) served as Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1824 to 1830. In that capacity he commissioned and collected portraits of Native Americans for his Gallery in the War Department. McKenney's goal was to publish a record of vanishing peoples: portraits, biographical sketches and a history of North American Indians. He accomplished this in the first issue of the "History of the Indian Tribes of North America," published in three volumes between 1838 and 1844. James Hall (1793-1868) provided the text." To inspect and acquire more detailed information about this lot, please attend our live preview before the auction. Condition / Notes: Tissue-guarded plate shows no tears, punctures or creasing and displays markings along fore edge. Lithograph is preserved in archival folder with printed label to front cover.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $6.50

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Book Details: This lot includes the vintage magazine issue shown in the corresponding image(s). This November 1939 issue of "Black & White: The West in Review" contains a seven-page story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck entitled "The Leader of the People." Illustrated with two in-text drawings and vignette. To inspect and acquire more detailed information about this lot, please attend our live preview before the auction. Condition / Notes: Well-preserved issue shows darkening at edges and lightly bumped lower inside corner. Covers and pages display no tears, punctures, creasing or markings.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Title: Histoire de l'admirable Don Quichotte de la Manche, traduite de l'espagnol de Michel de Cervantes. Nouvelle edition, revue, corrigee & augmenteeAuthor: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, "Don Quixote," considered the first modern novel, is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written. His influence on the Spanish language has been so great that the language is often called "la lengua de Cervantes" ("the language of Cervantes"). He was dubbed El Príncipe de los Ingenios ("The Prince of Wits").Translor: François Filleau de Saint-MartinPublisher: Francois Seguin, Imprimeur-LibraireCity: AvignonYear: 1786-1787Binding Style: HardcoverNumber of Volumes: 2 Complete: YesWidth: 4.25" Height: 7"Book Details: Condition / Notes: This is a scarce translation into French of Cervantes' masterpiece, with 6 volumes in three books. Set is bound in old decorated boards, showing minor repairs, nicely rebacked with calf and red leather labels. Books exhibit light external wear, with occasional minor loss at outside corners. Bindings are firm. Small stain is visible to bottom edge of final volume. Pages show very occasional light foxing. Faded oval name stamp of "von Olanyer" appears on title pages. This work is illustrated with numerous plates and vignettes.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $6.50

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Title: The Dance of DeathAuthor: Roderick CavePublisher: Brewhouse Private PressCity: Wymondham, EnglandYear: 1967Printing Information: Limited EditionBinding Style: Other - see descriptionWidth: 7.75" Height: 10.75"Book Details: Condition / Notes: This is a scarce limited edition of this broadsheet. This is one of 150 copies. Folded sheet, with typography by Duncan Greenwood and Jeffrey Hames, printed by Peter Esgate and Trevor Hickman, is in excellent condition. Block cut is by Trevor Hickman after the original by Mathias Huss. Original folder with stamped gilt lettering and skull to front panel is in excellent condition.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Title: Hierozoicon Sive bipertitum opus De Animalibus Sacræ Scripturae. Pars Prior Agit Libris quatuor De Animalibus in genere et de quadrupedibus viviparis et oviparis. Pars Posterior Agit Libris sex De Avibus, Serpentibus, Insectis, Aquaticis, Et Fabulosis Animalibus. Cum Indice septuplici I. Locorum Scripturae. II. Auctorum qui citantur. III. Vocum Hebraici, Chaldaici, Syriaci, Samaritanici & Aethiopici Sermonis. IV. Vocum Arabicarum. V. Graecarum. VI. Romanarum, que passim explicantur. VII. Rerum.Author: Samuel Bochart - Samuel Bochart was a French Protestant biblical scholar, a student of Thomas Erpenius and the teacher of Pierre Daniel Huet. His two-volume "Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan" (Caen 1646) exerted a profound influence on seventeenth-century Biblical exegesis.Bochart was one of the several generations of antiquaries who expanded upon the basis Renaissance humanists had laid down, complementing their revolutionary hermeneutics by setting classical texts more firmly within the cultural contexts of Greek and Roman societies, without understanding of which they could never be fully understood. Thus Bochart stands at the beginning of a discipline of the history of ideas that provides the modern context for all textual studies.(Courtesy of Wikipedia)Publisher: Thomas RoycroftCity: LondonYear: 1663Printing Information: First EditionBinding Style: HardcoverPagination: [8] + [96] + 1094 columns + [124]Width: 10" Height: 15"Book Details: Bochart's "Hierozoicon sive bipartitum opus de animalibus sacrae scripturae" is a zoological treatise on the animals of the Bible. It was more than a Christianized Pliny's "Natural History" nor just an expansion of Conrad Gesner's "Historiae animalium." Bochart instanced the Arabic naturalists, like al-Damîrî and al-Qazwini, none of whose work had appeared in European print before. (Wikipedia)Condition / Notes: This is a scarce first edition containing the first part (4 books) only. Antique volume is bound in restored contemporary brown leather with professionally repaired joints and new gilt-stamped black leather spine label, spine bands, corners rounded off. Binding is firm. This work contains engraved portrait of the author, occasional illustrations, title page printed in black and red, some Arabic and Greek in text; edges and corners fragile, fresh pastedowns with repaired end-papers and title page, some uneven toning and light marginal staining/wormholing not affecting text, column numbering errors from 832-865, catchwords and quires continuous.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $10.50

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Details: This lot includes the color lithograph from the McKenney & Hall series of Native American portraits shown in the corresponding image(s). This is an original hand-colored portrait of Wa-Kawn-Ha-Ka, a Winnebago chief, taken from the landmark publication "Indian Tribes of North America" (J. T. Bowen, 1841). This well-preserved print measures approximately 14.25" x 19.75" and is complete with a foxed three-page biographical text that shows water staining on edges. ""McKenney & Hall: History of the Indian Tribes of North America" is a collection of 125 images of lithographic and chromolithographic plates. Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785-1859) served as Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1824 to 1830. In that capacity he commissioned and collected portraits of Native Americans for his Gallery in the War Department. McKenney's goal was to publish a record of vanishing peoples: portraits, biographical sketches and a history of North American Indians. He accomplished this in the first issue of the History of the Indian Tribes of North America, published in three volumes between 1838 and 1844. James Hall (1793-1868) provided the text." To inspect and acquire more detailed information about this lot, please attend our live preview before the auction. Condition / Notes: Tissue-guarded plate shows no tears, punctures or creasing and displays faint staining at margins. Lithograph is preserved in archival folder with printed label to front cover.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $6.50

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Book Details: Included in this group of collectible vintage and antique literature is a handsome, limited edition of "Fragments from Walt Whitman" in a slip-case (1956), a first edition of E.L. Doctorow's "The Book of Daniel," the 1979 Arion Press edition of "Moby-Dick," a reprint of one of the first books on Hawaii, "Honolulu: Sketches of Life in the Hawaiian Islands from 1828 to 1861," by Laura Fish Judd, and two poetry chapbooks.To inspect and acquire more detailed information about this lot, please attend our live preview before the auction.Condition / Notes: These books are generally in good, intact condition with some age/wear indications; older items are more likely to have advanced flaws. For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $10.50

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Title: Poems and Epigrams : Titled Aliquid Salis or If You Prefer English, Some SaltAuthor: J. V. Cunningham - James Vincent Cunningham was an American poet, literary critic, and teacher. Sometimes described as a neo-classicist or anti-modernist, his poetry was distinguished by its clarity, its brevity, and its traditional formality of rhyme and rhythm at a time when many American poets were breaking away from traditional fixed meters. His finely crafted epigrams in the style of Latin poets were much praised and frequently anthologized. But he also wrote spare, mature poems about love and estrangement, most notably the 15-poem sequence entitled "To What Strangers, What Welcome" (1964).Publisher: The Perishable PressCity: Mount Horeb, WisconsinYear: 1967Printing Information: Limited EditionBinding Style: Other - see descriptionPagination: 14 leavesWidth: 5.5" Height: 8.25"Book Details: Condition / Notes: This is a scarce limited edition of this poetry collection. Well-preserved volume is bound in printed wrappers.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Book Details: This lot includes the group of Limited Edition Club volumes shown in the corresponding image(s). The titles in this collection are "The Natural History of Selborne" (1972) by Gilbert White, with drawings by John Nash, "The Sea around Us" (1980) by Rachel L. Carson, with photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt, and Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" (1963) with wood engravings by Paul Landacre, and "The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex" (1971) with drawings by Fritz Kredel.Each illustrator-signed volume is preserved in its slipcase. To inspect and acquire more detailed information about this lot, please attend our live preview before the auction.Condition / Notes: As with all the books in our shelf lots, these are generally in good condition with some age/wear indications; older books are more likely to have advanced flaws.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $16.50

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Title: Hystoria ecclesiastica uenundatur Parisius a Francisco Regnault in Vico Sancti Jacobi sub signo Diui ClaudiAuthor: Eusebius - Eusebius (also called Eusebius of Caesarea and Eusebius Pamphili) was a Roman historian, exegete and Christian polemicist. He became the Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine about the year 314. Together with Pamphilus, he was a scholar of the Biblical canon and is regarded as an extremely well learned Christian of his time. He wrote "Demonstrations of the Gospel," "Preparations for the Gospel," and "On Discrepancies between the Gospels," studies of the Biblical text. As "Father of Church History" he produced the "Ecclesiastical History," "On the Life of Pamphilus," the "Chronicle" and "On the Martyrs."Publisher: Geoffrey BoussardCity: ParisYear: 1525Binding Style: HardcoverPagination: 131 folia numbered in Roman numeals plus 23 unnumbered ffWidth: 5" Height: 7"Book Details: The Church History (Latin: Historia Ecclesiastica or Historia Ecclesiae) of Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea was a 4th-century pioneer work giving a chronological account of the development of Early Christianity from the 1st century to the 4th century. It was written in Koine Greek, and survives also in Latin, Syriac and Armenian manuscripts.Condition / Notes: Antique volume is rebound in modern marbled paper boards, very light wear to corners and top/bottom of spine, binding tight and solid, fine overall. Tabula. Engraved title page somewhat faded and rubbed with minor wormhole damage, with stamp but lacking the printed "Eusebii Caesarensii" of other copies, edges stained navy blue, ink inscriptions on title page and ff. ii and vi, decorative printed initials, scattered light staining, overall clean and bright; folio 28 misprinted as 27, 30 as 29, 32 as 31, 83 as 84, 85 as 82, 105 as 106, 116 as 114, and 123 as 124. After f. 64 foliation resets to 63 and continues with new numbering; the same occurs after 86, resetting to 85, and ff. 93-96 are skipped without apparently affecting the text. Minor tape repair at inner edge of verso CI in the Tabula section. Overall a good copy of this early edition.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Title: Youthful SportsAuthor: uncredited authorPublisher: Mahlon DayCity: New YorkYear: circa 1831Printing Information: First EditionBinding Style: Other - see descriptionPagination: 16 pagesWidth: 2.25" Height: 3.5"Book Details: Full imprint: "Stereotyped by James Conner, New York. New-York: Printed and sold by Mahlon Day at the New Juvenile Book-Store, No. 376, Pearl-Street."Condition / Notes: Antique miniature book is bound in illustrated wrappers, sewn, as issued, covers moderately darkened, vignettes throughout, including title page. Docketed by the original owner on the blank inside of the front wrapper, "Mr. Samuel Porters Primer 1832." Sports illustrated include bat and ball, shuttlecock, jumping rope, marbles, hoops, swings, football, kites, archery. Scarce early American sporting juvenile.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Title: Quarto-Millenary: The First 250 Publications and the First 25 years, 1929-1954, of the Limited Editions Club: A Critique, a Conspectus, a Bibliography, IndexesAuthor: uncredited authorPublisher: The Limited Editions ClubCity: New YorkYear: 1959Printing Information: Limited EditionBinding Style: HardcoverPagination: xiv/295 pagesWidth: 9.75" Height: 12.5"Book Details: Illustrated with 200 examples of title pages, text pages, and illustrations reproduced by the same processes used in the original editions by artists such as Arthur Rackham, Thomas Hart Benton, and many more.Contents: The books as printed books, by Paul Beaujon.--The books as illustrated books, by Edward Alden Jewell.--The books as literature, by John T. Winterich.--Conspectus: representative examples.--Bibliography.Condition / Notes: This is a scarce limited edition of this work. This is copy number 1459 of 2250. Introduction is by designer Robert L. Dothard, with essays by Paul Beaujon, Paul A. Bennett, Edward Alden Jewell, James Laver, and Thomas Craven.Volume is bound in half black leather and red cloth over beveled edges, with black leather inset to front cover. Book is in excellent condition. The composition and printing have been done by Clarke & Way of New York and The Press of A. Colish of Mount Vernon, New York. The principal printers of the special material have been Crafton Graphic Company, New York ; W. S. Cowell Ltd., Ipswich, England; The Curwen Press, London; George C. Miller, Photogravure and Color Company, and Walter Fischer, all of New York. The printing has been done on Archer white, specially made for this edition by the Curtis Paper Company of Delaware; and the inding has been done by Frank D. Fortney of the Russell-Rutter Comapny in New York. This volume has been designed by Robert L. Dothard.Black paper-covered slipcase with red cloth facing and a red paper title label on spine is in fine condition. Case measures approximately 10" x 13".For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $8.50

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Book Details: This lot consists of seven brand-new copies of "At the Fights," by Howard Schatz, a 2012 Sports Illustrated publication. This large format book examines the world of contemporary boxing, generously illustrated with scores of high-quality color photographs. Prominent individuals from all parts of the boxing world are profiled, including trainers, referees, and judges, as well as boxers from all weight classes, and a few unforgettable retired champions.To inspect and acquire more detailed information about this lot, please attend our live preview before the auction.Condition / Notes: Each book is protected by a heavyweight plastic cover, and all are in pristine condition.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $42.50

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Details: This lot includes the color lithograph from the McKenney & Hall series of Native American portraits shown in the corresponding image(s). This is an original hand-colored portrait of Ka-Ta-Wa-Be-Da, a Chippeway chief, taken from the landmark publication "Indian Tribes of North America" (J. T. Bowen, 1841). This well-preserved print measures approximately 14.25" x 19.75" and is complete with a page of biographical text that displays water markings to edges.""McKenney & Hall: History of the Indian Tribes of North America" is a collection of 125 images of lithographic and chromolithographic plates. Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785-1859) served as Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1824 to 1830. In that capacity he commissioned and collected portraits of Native Americans for his Gallery in the War Department. McKenney's goal was to publish a record of vanishing peoples: portraits, biographical sketches and a history of North American Indians. He accomplished this in the first issue of the "History of the Indian Tribes of North America," published in three volumes between 1838 and 1844. James Hall (1793-1868) provided the text." To inspect and acquire more detailed information about this lot, please attend our live preview before the auction. Condition / Notes: Tissue-guarded plate shows no tears, punctures or creasing and displays faint staining along fore and bottom edge. Lithograph is preserved in archival folder with printed label to front cover.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $6.50

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Title: The Journal of Frederick Horneman's Travels from Cairo to Mourzouk, the Capital of the Kingdom of Fezzan, in Africa, in the Years 1797-8Author: Frederick Horneman - Friedrich Conrad Hornemann was a German explorer in Africa.Hornemann was born in Hildesheim, a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, located about 30 km southeast of Hannover. He was a young man when, early in 1796, he offered his services to the African Association of London as an explorer in Africa. The African Association sent him to the University of Gottingen to study Arabic and otherwise prepare for an expedition from the east into the unknown regions of North Africa. In September 1797 he arrived in Egypt, where he continued his studies. When the country was invaded by the French, he was confined in the citadel of Cairo to preserve him from the fanaticism of the populace. Liberated by the French, he received the patronage of Bonaparte. On 5 September 1798 he joined a caravan returning to the Maghreb from Mecca, attaching himself to a party of Fezzan merchants who accompanied the pilgrims. As an avowed Christian would not have been permitted to join the caravan Hornemann assumed the character of a young mamluk trading to Fezzan. He then spoke, but indifferently, both Arabic and Turkish, and he was accompanied as servant and interpreter by Joseph Freudenburg, a German convert to Islam, who had thrice made the pilgrimage to Mecca. Travelling by way of the oases of Siwa and Aujila, a black rocky desert was traversed to Temissa in Fezzan. Murzuk was reached on 17 November 1798.Here Hornemann lived until June 1799, going thence to the city of Tripoli, whence in August of the same year he despatched his journals to London. He then returned to Murzuk. Nothing further is known with certainty concerning him or his companion. In Murzuk Hornemann had collected a great deal of trustworthy information concerning the peoples and countries of the western Sahara and central Sudan, and when he left Tripoli it was his intention to go directly to the Hausa country, which region he was the first European definitely to locate. "If I do not perish in my undertaking", he wrote in his journal, "I hope in five years I shall be able to make the Society better acquainted with the people of whom I have given this short description." The British consul at Tripoli heard from a source believed to be trustworthy that about June 1803 Jusef (Hornemann's Muslim name) was at Caina, i.e. Katsina, in Northern Nigeria, in good health and highly respected as a marabout. A report reached Murzuk in 1819 that the traveller had gone to Noofy (Nupe), and had died there. Hornemann was the first European in modern times to traverse the north-eastern Sahara, and up to 1910 no other explorer had followed his route across the Jebel-es-Suda from Aujila to Temissa.The original text of Hornemann's journal, which was written in German, was printed at Weimar in 1801; an English translation, "Travels from Cairo to Mourzouk..." with maps and dissertations by Major James Rennell, appeared in London in 1802. A French translation of the English work, made by order of the First Consuls and augmented with notes and a memoir on the Egyptian oases by L. Langles, was published in Paris in the following year. The French version is the most valuable of the three. Consult also the Proceedings of the African Association (1810), and the Geog. Jnl. Nov. 1906. (courtesy of Wikipedia)Publisher: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol. Booksellers to His MajestyCity: LondonYear: 1802Printing Information: First EditionBinding Style: HardcoverPagination: xxvi/195 pagesWidth: 9" Height: 11"Book Details: Condition / Notes: Antique volume is bound in gilt-stamped brown leather boards with light repair work and new spine label, corners rubbed, edges and hinges worn, quarter-inch pieces missing at top and bottom of spine, leather cracked and chipped. Binding is cracked at introduction. Volume has marbled end-papers, two engraved fold-out maps and one plate (opposite page 111). Pages display scattered light foxing and occasional browning but overall a clean, bright copy; one small tear on each of the fold-out maps, ink gift inscription on title page.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Book Details: This lot includes the group of Limited Edition Club volumes shown in the corresponding image(s). The titles in this collection are a two-volume edition of "The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion" (1970) with illustrations by James Lewicki, "Irish Folk Tales" (1973) edited by William Butler Yeats and illustrated by Rowel Friers, "The Book of Ballads" (1967) with woodcuts by Fritz Kredel, Thomas Bulfinch's "The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes" (1958) illustrated by Joe Mugnaini, and "Gilgamesh" (1974) illustrated by Irving Amen.Each illustrator-signed volume is preserved in its slipcase. To inspect and acquire more detailed information about this lot, please attend our live preview before the auction. Condition / Notes: As with all the books in our shelf lots, these are generally in good condition with some age/wear indications; older books are more likely to have advanced flaws.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $20.50

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Title: Again the Kensington StoneAuthor: Carl Christian JensenPublisher: Sumac PressCity: La Crosse, WisconsinYear: 1969Printing Information: Limited EditionBinding Style: Other - see descriptionPagination: 24 unnumbered pagesWidth: 6.5" Height: 9.5"Book Details: Condition / Notes: This is a scarce limited edition, one of 300 copies. Volume is bound in printed wrappers. Crease appears across lower outside corner. Booklet is otherwise in excellent condition.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Title: History of the Late War, between the United States and Great Britain, Containing an Accurate Account of the Most Important Engagements by Sea and Land. Interspersed with Interesting Geographical Sketches of Those Parts of the Country Whre the Principal Batles Were FoughtAuthor: J. C. GillelandPublisher: Schaeffer & MaundCity: BaltimoreYear: 1817Printing Information: First EditionBinding Style: HardcoverPagination: 151 pagesWidth: 4.25" Height: 6.5"Book Details: Condition / Notes: Handsome antique volume has been rebound in quarter leather over marbled paper-covered boards, with raised bands and stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book shows minimal external wear. Binding is tight. Volume has new endpapers. Title page displays soiling. Lightly age-toned pages exhibit sporadic light foxing. For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Details: This large collection of vintage baseball cards dates from the 1980s and 1990s, and consists of thousands of unsorted cards in very good or excellent condition. This collection has not been sifted, so more details are unavailable.To inspect and acquire more detailed information about this lot, please attend our live preview before the auction.Condition / Notes: These baseball cards are in very good or excellent condition.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $43.50

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Title: 17th and 18th Century Ship Models from the Kriegstein CollectionAuthor: Arnold Kriegstein, Henry KriegsteinPublisher: Pier Books/Dupont CommunicationsCity: Florence, OregonYear: 2007Printing Information: First PrintingBinding Style: HardcoverPagination: 215 pagesWidth: 12.5" Height: 10.5"Book Details: Condition / Notes: These new, lavishly illustrated books are still in their original shrink-wrap, and are in excellent condition. (The shrink-wrap has been removed from two books so they could be photographed.)For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $55.50

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Title: Control TheoryAuthor: Arthur L. GreensitePublisher: Spartan BooksCity: New YorkYear: 1970Printing Information: First EditionBinding Style: HardcoverNumber of Volumes: 2 Complete: YesWidth: 6.75" Height: 9.75"Book Details: Volume I: Elements of Modern Control Theory; Volume II: Analysis and Design of Space Vehicle Flight Control SystemsCondition / Notes: Set is bound in gray cloth with bright stamped gilt lettering to spines and front covers. Books are in excellent condition. Profusely illustrated with diagrams. Intact dust jackets are preserved in mylar.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $9.50

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Title: Shepherds of the MistAuthor: James Tate - James Tate is an American poet whose work has earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and LettersPublisher: Black Sparrow PressCity: Los AngelesYear: 1969Printing Information: Signed EditionBinding Style: Other - see descriptionPagination: 33 pagesWidth: 6.5" Height: 9.75"Book Details: Condition / Notes: This is a scarce limited edition of this collection of poetry signed by author James Tate. This is copy 182 of 150. Volume is in excellent condition."Printed September 1969 in Santa Barbara by Noel Young for the Black Sparrow Press. Design by Barbara Martin. This book is published in three editions: 300 numbered copies sewn in paper wrappers signed by the poet; 150 numbered copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray signed by the poet; & 250 unsigned copies stapled in paper wrappers."--Colophon.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Title: Le tre fontane di Messer Nicolo Liburnio in tre libri divise, sopra la grammatica et eloquenza di Dante, Petrarcha et Boccaccio. Et nel primo libbro havareteAuthor: Niccolo LiburnioPublisher: Merchio SessaCity: VeniceYear: 1534Printing Information: Second EditionBinding Style: HardcoverPagination: 110 pagesWidth: 4.5" Height: 6.5"Book Details: Condition / Notes: This is a scarce second edition in probable 19th-century binding. This copy of this Italian grammatical text is not listed in Adams.Handsome volume has been rebound in black -stamped brown leather with ornate floral panels and line borders on both boards, spine bands, with very light wear to hinges and corners, some faint scuff marks to boards, slight darkening. Leather is soft and supple. Binding is tight. Pages display light toning at edges, ink underlining on folio 67, otherwise a clean and bright copy. Folio 63 is mispaginated as 62, slight damage to lower corner of folio 69 and upper corner of folio 71, not affecting text block. Last leaf is in facsimile.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Title: The Man among the Seals: PoemsAuthor: Denis Johnson - Denis Hale Johnson is an American author who is known for his short-story collection "Jesus' Son" (1992) and his novel "Tree of Smoke" (2007), which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. He also writes plays, poetry, and non-fiction. "Train Dreams", a novella originally published in The Paris Review in 2002, was published as a novel in 2011 and was a finalist for that year's Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Publisher: The Stone Wall PressCity: Iowa CityYear: 1969Printing Information: Limited EditionBinding Style: HardcoverPagination: 55 pagesWidth: 6" Height: 9.25"Book Details: Condition / Notes: This is a scarce first printing of the author's first book, a poetry collection limited to 260 copies. Volume is bound in brown cloth with printed paper label to spine. Book shows light external wear, with faint spotting to upper edge of front cover. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50

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Book Details: This lot includes the group of Limited Edition Club volumes shown in the corresponding image(s). The titles in this collection are a two-volume bilingual edition of Charles Baudelaire's "The Flowers of Evil" (1971) illustrated by Pierre-Yves Tremois, Stendhal's "The Charterhouse of Parma" (1955) with illustrations by Rafaello Busoni, Proust's "Swann's Way" (1954) with illustrations by Bernard Lamotte, and Flaubert's "Salammbo" (1960) illustrated by Edward Bawden, and "Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert: A Simple Heart, The Legend of Saint Julia, Herodias" (1978) illustrated by May Neama.Each illustrator-signed volume is preserved in its slipcase. To inspect and acquire more detailed information about this lot, please attend our live preview before the auction. Condition / Notes: As with all the books in our shelf lots, these are generally in good condition with some age/wear indications; older books are more likely to have advanced flaws.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $20.50

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Title: Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim WeizmannAuthor: Chaim Weizmann - Chaim Azriel Weizmann was a Zionist leader, President of the Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was elected on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952.Publisher: Harper & Brothers, PublishersCity: New YorkYear: 1949Printing Information: Signed EditionBinding Style: HardcoverNumber of Volumes: 2 Complete: YesWidth: 6.25" Height: 8.75"Book Details: Condition / Notes: This is a scarce author-signed limited first edition of this autobiographical work. Chaim Weizmann's signature appears on limitation page at front of first volume. This is copy number 161 of 500.Set is bound in dark blue cloth with printed paper labels to spines. Books are in excellent condition.Front flap and panel of dust jacket of first volume are detached. Dust jacket of second volume is intact. Both jackets have darkened spines and light shelfwear. Set is preserved in shelfworn cardboard slipcase with split between top and side panel.Newspaper clipping from 1952 is laid in.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $6.50

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Book Details: This lot includes the group of Limited Edition Club volumes shown in the corresponding image(s). The titles in this collection are "The Poems of Robert Burns" (1965), decorated with wood engravings by Joan Hassall, "Idylls of the King" (1952) by Tennyson, with lithographs in color by Lynd Ward, "The Poems of W. B. Yeats" (1970) illustrated with drawings by Robin Jacques, and "Poems" (1980) by Robert Graves, illustrated by Paul Hogarth. Each illustrator-signed volume is in slipcase. To inspect and acquire more detailed information about this lot, please attend our live preview before the auction. Condition / Notes: As with all the books in our shelf lots, these are generally in good condition with some age/wear indications; older books are more likely to have advanced flaws.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $12.50